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Originally Posted by ShockerCon

I wouldn't call the other two sequels and prequels, really. I don't understand why everyone calls RyuKenDo a spiritual prequel to Rescue Force, the only real similarities they have are that they're both made by Takara. Although there is some established continuity between the two, since RyuKenDo's main characters appear in Rescue Force's movie.

As for Rescue Fire, I guess it's more of a sequel than RyuKenDo is a prequel, but that's not saying much. It has more similar themes, as well as some returning characters(the Director of the UFDA/the guy in charge of all the good things is actually played by the original Kamen Rider), but I still won't call it a sequel on the pure fact that it's not a continuation of a plot.

And, for what it's worth, the toys of Gridman, aka Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad, were designed by Takara. But not the show.

I'll definitely check out RyuKenDo then! And I'm really enjoying Rescue Force, so I'll just check out Fire afterwards.

So I checked out the opening episode of RyuKenDo and I really wasn't impressed.

Whereas Rescue Force is huge and epic and tries to make every moment awesome with what seems to be a surprisingly big budget, RyuKenDo just felt like a cheap Kamen Rider knockoff.

And like when the guy finally morphed and fought the demon, there were some extremely cool moments but it was undermined, at least for me, by the majority of the fight being CGI and CGI that wouldn't have looked out of place on an early PS2 game cutscene.